When it comes to readers who need the most support, teachers can't afford to waste time using fragmented, skill-and-drill interventions that don't work. Literacy specialists Stephanie Harvey and Annie Ward demonstrate how to "table the labels" and use detailed formative assessments to craft targeted, personalized instrtuction that enable striving readers to do what they need above all -- to find books they love and engage in voluminous reading. Loaded with ready-to-go lessons, routines, and "actions," as well as the latest research, this book is a must for any teacher who strives to makes every reader a thriving reader.

STRATEGIES THAT WORK, 3rd Edition

In this new edition of their groundbreaking book STRATEGIES THAT WORK, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis share the work and thinking they've done since the second edition came out a decade ago, and offer new perspectives on how to explicitly teach thinking strategies so that strudents become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.

Originally developed in 2005, updated Second Editions of the Primary and Intermediate TOOLKITS were published in 2016. The Comprehension Toolkit series presents an active literacy learning framework that grounds students in the nonfiction reading and thinking strategies that they will need throughout school and onto college and careers. The series is designed to take kids' thoughts, ideas, and opinions seriously. The lessons and instruction intentionally engages kids and guides them as they grapple with the information and concepts they encounter in school, particularly as they read informational text.

Publications and Resources

The Comprehension Toolkit Series

"We teach the reader, not just the reading. We want children to be lifelong learners who read actively and independently across the curriculum, who engage their minds and understand what they read. The Toolkit lessons and practices teach kids to use comprehension strategies to 'read to learn' as they encounter information and ideas in a wide variety of nonfiction texts."

Stephanie Harvey & Anne Goudvis

The Comprehension Toolkit series includes two foundational kits, The Comprehension Toolkit Grades 3-6 and The Primary Toolkit: Grades K-2, as well as a number of components at additional cost, such as The Toolkit Texts and the Comprehension Intervention books. The additional Toolkit components act as spokes that are anchored by the The Comprehension Toolkit and the Primary Toolkit hubs. We continue to create Toolkit add-ons to meet the needs of a variety of learners. Stay tuned for new Toolkit spokes!

The 22 lessons in The Primary Comprehension Toolkit model Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis's comprehension instruction and give you an explicit framework for your teaching. Through its carefully crafted language, lessons, and professional support, The Primary Toolkit equips you to design your own strategy lessons, using informational text of your own choice.

Through The Comprehension Toolkit Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis offer an intensive course of study designed to help intermediate-grade students understand, respond to, and learn from nonfiction text. With the teaching and learning focus on comprehension strategies, the Tookit provides a foundation for developing independent readers and learners across the curriculum and throughout the school year.

Four volumes of short, engaging nonfiction articles at the PreK/1, 2/3, 4/5, and 6/7 grade reading level to give kids additional practice in nonfiction reading. They each include a CD with all of the articles translated into Spanish and printable in living color!

A resource with additional comprehension lessons for kids who need more practice with Toolkit strategy instruction. Offered at the primary and intermediate level, these books are designed to help teachers provide comprehension instruction for small, flexible, needs-based groups. Recommended for RTI support.

“We have created the lessons in these books to help teachers give their English language learners the conceptual background and English language structures they need to collaborate fully in each Toolkit lesson.”
Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis, Brad Buhrow, and Anne Upczak-Garcia

52 short nonfiction texts for American History (1750-1800) with 10 new lessons for content literacy

“We turn information into knowledge by thinking about it. These texts support students in using the Toolkit’s comprehension and thinking strategies as tools to acquire and actively use knowledge in history.” —Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis